Dashboard-holder.



No. 864,715. PATENTED AUG. 27, 1907. J. W. YOGHEM. DASHBOARD HOLDER.

APPLIOATIOH FILED APRA, 1907.

W I W A TTORNE Y5 JOHN W. YOOHEM, OF TIFFIN, OHIO.

DASHBOARD-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 27, 1907.

Application filed April 4, 1907. Serial No. 366,4;12.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Jenn W. YooHEM, a citizen of the United States, residing at Tiflin, in the county of Seneca and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Dashboard-Holder of which the following is a specification.

This invention has relation to dashboard holders and it consists in the novel construction and arrangement of its parts as hereinafter shown and described.

The object of the invention is to provide a dashboard holder which will permit of the dashboard being swung from an erect or normal position into the body of the vehicle. At the same time, the holder is so constructed that when the dashboard is supported in its normal position the parts are locked and retained against vibration and incidental rattling.

The holder consists primarily of a pair of members pivotally connected together and provided at points away lrom the pivotal connection with interfitting elements. A locking device in the form of a cam lever is fulcrumed to one of the members and the other member is provided with an opening in which is located a spring. The said cam, when moved into locking position bears against the said spring which holds the cam in the said locked position. The cam forces the members away from each other said members being connected by means of the interfitting elements and the pivot. The said cam being located between the said elements and the said pivot. One of the members is attached to thebody oi the vehicle while the dashboard is mounted upon the other mem-.

her.

In the accompanying drawingz-Figure 1 is a perspective view of the forward portion of a buggy body having the holders applied thereto, and Fig. 2 is a side elevation partly in section of one of the holders.

The dashboard holder comprises a member 1 which is adapted to be attached to the body of a vehicle. Said member is provided with the side flanges 2 which in turn are provided at their upper ends with the recesses 3. The member 4 is provided with an elongated slot 5 and the pin 6 passes transversely through the flanges 2 and the slot 5. Thus the members 1 and 4 are pivotally connected together. The dashboard 7 is supported by the member 4 and the said member is provided at its upper portion with the shoulders 8 which are adapted to enter the recesses 3. The member 4 is provided at a point between the slot 5 and the shoul ders 8 with an opening 9. The locking lever 10 is fulcrumed in said opening and is provided with a cam end 11. The member 1 is provided at a point between the recesses 3 and the pin 6 with an opening 12. The material at the upper and lower edges is countersunk or depressed as at 13. The flat spring 14 is confined at one end to one of the depressions 13 and at its other end overlaps the opposite depression 13. The intermediate portion ol the said spring 14 lies in the opening 12 with its surface flush with or lying in the same plane as the surface of the member 1.

When the member 4 is swung up against the member 1 and the shoulders 8 are inserted in the recesses 3 the locking lever 10 may be swung up against the member 4 and when this is done the cam end 11 is forced laterally against the springl l. Thus the locking lever has a tendency to force the members apart and the cam end 11 being in contact with the Hat spring 14 which is slightly distorted, the said spring iorms a means for retaining the locking device in locked position.

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters-Patent isz l. A dashboard holder comprising a pair of members pivotally connected together, inter-fitting elements located away from said pivotal connection, a locking device located upon one of the members between the intoriitting elements and the pivotal connection and a spring similarly located upon the other member for holding said locking' device in locked position.

2. A dashboard holder comprising a pair of pivotally connected members, a locking device mounted upon one of the said members, the other member having an opening, a spring confined at one end only and lying in said opening and having its end opposite its confined end extending be yond the edge of the opening, said spring forming" a holder for retaining the locking; device in locked position.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto ailixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN W. YOCI'IEM.

Witnesses \VILLIAM BAKER, Gnonon M. Horn 

